Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Dan Horák
Shawn Wells píše v Po 24. 11. 2008 v 17:18 -0500: > David Boyes wrote: > > On 11/24/08 2:10 PM, "Mark Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 11/24/2008 at 1:14 PM, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> -snip- > >> > >>> If you do this, please make sure there is a text-on

Re: Oracle DB's and Why??

2008-11-24 Thread Shockley, Gerard C
We are running Oracle 10.2.0.3 on Linux System Z. These were new workloads for Business Intelligence, and Document Imaging. Rationale for choosing system Z was; Platform superiority over all others! Then; Cost avoidance - Performance - Scalability - Security - Native support for backup/restore/D

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Shawn Wells
David Boyes wrote: On 11/24/08 2:10 PM, "Mark Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/24/2008 at 1:14 PM, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- If you do this, please make sure there is a text-only version. Many people don't install X at all on headless servers. Pretty much by de

Re: SUSE 10 Installation Help

2008-11-24 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hello Russel, I don't know if you are connecting from a windows (putty) or linux PC (ssh or openssh) but yesterday I installed a system and connected from a linux machine. SSH from linux apparently sends the userid with it. So I had to issue "ssh -l root 192.168.200.2" instead of just "ssh 192.168

Re: SUSE 10 Installation Help

2008-11-24 Thread Jones, Russell
I am 99% sure of what I set the password to in the first part of the installation. I was able to logon via ssh for the first part of the install, but the password is not being accepted now. If I can't get the password to work, is my only option to start the install over from the beginning? Russell

Re: SUSE 10 Installation Help

2008-11-24 Thread Rich Smrcina
It will be the temporary password that you entered during the first part of the install. Make sure you have the proper case for the password. Jones, Russell wrote: My boss came home from a tech conference with an evaluation copy of SUSE 10. I am trying to install it and I seem to be stuck. I h

SUSE 10 Installation Help

2008-11-24 Thread Jones, Russell
My boss came home from a tech conference with an evaluation copy of SUSE 10. I am trying to install it and I seem to be stuck. I have completed the install and IPLed the new system. There is a message on the console to logon and run the command /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.ssh. I can connect via ss

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread David Boyes
On 11/24/08 2:10 PM, "Mark Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/24/2008 at 1:14 PM, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -snip- >> If you do this, please make sure there is a text-only version. Many people >> don't install X at all on headless servers. > > Pretty much by definition, GN

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/24/2008 at 1:14 PM, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > If you do this, please make sure there is a text-only version. Many people > don't install X at all on headless servers. Pretty much by definition, GNOME Control Center is going to be GUI only. That was one of the th

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Shawn Wells
Patrick Spinler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shawn Wells wrote: Hi Patrick, I thought I'd take the chance to respond to this, publicly, since I haven't seen any other threads. ... *) Integration to the Z platform The zipl issues were fixed and will be rele

Re: SLES 10 SP 2 - OSA-Express Setup Assistance

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/24/2008 at 12:38 PM, David Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > No, I don't believe so. But I'm still within my trial period. I'll place a > call. If you mean you're running evaluation software, that doesn't come with any support. If you mean the 30-day installation

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread David Boyes
On 11/24/08 12:04 PM, "Shawn Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the future there's been some talk about integrating the > system-config-* tools into GnomeControlCenter. It's already in RHEL and > Fedora, some screen shots: > > http://linux.softpedia.com/screenshots/Gnome-Control-Center_1.png

Making SELinux work (was: Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z)

2008-11-24 Thread Shawn Wells
As promised, an answer to SELinux in a separate thread. On the other hand, something that's been a big adjustment - SELinux in redhat 5. It seems like none of the vendors out there support running under SELinux. For example, for both our monitoring product and backup solution I've had to cra

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Shawn Wells
John Summerfield wrote: Shawn Wells wrote: Honestly, this may be more of a "sendmail vs postfix" issue than "SLES vs RHEL." But I am glad the process was easy. Not really. I used to use sendmail (OS/2 and Linux). I now choose to use postfix, though I can take care of sendmail if needs be.

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 24, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Patrick Spinler wrote: +) It automagically pulls the current list of activated DASD channel numbers, and includes those in the ramdisk image it builds for activation at next IPL. No forgetting to edit /etc/modules.conf when extending a machine with more DASD. +

Re: SLES 10 SP 2 - OSA-Express Setup Assistance

2008-11-24 Thread David Stuart
Hi Mark, No, I don't believe so. But I'm still within my trial period. I'll place a call. Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Mark Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/21/2008 12:40 PM >>> >>> On 11/19/2008 at 5:58 PM, D

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shawn Wells wrote: > Hi Patrick, > >I thought I'd take the chance to respond to this, publicly, since I > haven't seen any other threads. > ... >> *) Integration to the Z platform >> > The zipl issues were fixed and will be released in RHEL 5.3,

Re: STOP SYSTEM VIRTUAL MACHINES EXPIRING?

2008-11-24 Thread Andy Robertson
THAT CLEARS IT UP COMPLETELY. THANKS ALL >> EXPired password does not cause any problems unless you try to logon to the server. During system IPL the servers get autologged and that does not reference the password. This is why we say it is Very Best Practice to define

Re: different take on Java 6 question

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Perry
Mark Post wrote: On 11/21/2008 at 10:07 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> found the IBM link for jdk downloads - now a different question. >> >> Will the 31-bit jdk work - and work well - in a 64-bit linux environment. >> We run the 32-bit java on 64-bit AIX without any difficulty since quite